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BUILDING CAPACITY OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA FOR SCALING UP
CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE INNOVATIONSWiebke Foerch, Baitsi Podisi and Sarah Beerhalter
African Extension WeekDurban, 30 Oct – 3 Nov, 2017
Center for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa
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Objectives• Climate change in SADC• Institutional context
• Centre for Coordination of Agriculture Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA)
• Adaptation to Climate Change in Rural Areas of SADC (ACCRA) Programme
• ACCRA’s approach to capacity building for scaling CSA
• Processes of capacity development & lessons learnt• Conclusions & implications moving forward
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Introduction• SADC Region is affected by Climate Change• Majority of farmers in SADC are smallholders• Climate smart agriculture (CSA) approaches offer
solutions, but • Low availability of user-friendly information• Low adoption of CSA practices & technologies• SADC countries lack capacity to integrate climate
change aspects into agricultural programmes and operationalise these for investment
• Extension Services critical in assisting farmers
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Institutional context: CCARDESA• In 2007 SADC Council of
Ministers approved review & harmonisation of the policy for agriculture & NR
• CAADP Pillar 4: Agric. research - technology development, dissemination & adoption
• CCARDESA established (2011) by 15 SADC Member States as SADC sub-regional organisation
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Institutional context: CCARDESA• Mandate to coordinate agricultural research and
development (AR&D) in the region• CCARDESA aims to be a regional hub to facilitate
access to agricultural knowledge and information• Facilitate collaboration among NARES & CGIAR• Promote public-private partnerships in regional
agricultural R&D• Improve agric. technology generation, dissemination,
adoption through collective efforts, training and capacity building
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Institutional context: CCARDESA• Empower and strengthen farmers and their
organisations and enhance their access to markets and negotiating skills
• Facilitate devt. of sustainable education, training and learning systems that contribute to farmer-oriented innovation & technology transfer systems
• Promote cooperation, consultation and exchange of scientific and technical information on best practices in agric. research and advisory services
CCARDESA: mission and themes
Farmer Empowerment
& Market Access
Research and Technology
generation and farmer demand driven advisory
services
VISION: A food secure and prosperous SouthernAfrican region with vibrant rural livelihoods
MISSION: To promote innovative research, technology generation and adoption for sustainable agricultural development through effective partnership and capacity building
Knowledge, Information
and Communication
Institutional Developmentand Capacity
Building
Establishment and
Strengtheningof CCARDESA as
an effective SRO
THEME 1 THEME 5THEME 2 THEME 3 THEME 4
Institutional context: CCARDESAMedium Term Operation Plan Cross Cutting IssuesCATEGORY IHIV/AIDSGenderEnvironmentClimate change
CATEGORY IIAgricultural policyTrade and marketsUrban agriculture
Institutional context: ACCRA• Adaptation to climate change in rural areas in
southern Africa (ACCRA) Programme• Implemented by CCARDESA with support through
GIZ, funded by the German Government • Objective: increase capacities of SADC member
states to integrate climate change aspects into agricultural programmes and investments
• ACCRA contributes towards implementation of the SADC Regional Agricultural Policy
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ACCRA’s approach to capacity building• Underlying notion: CSA practices known to scientific
community but need to be translated into practice• Regional & national institutions mandated with
agricultural development as strategic entry points• Extension services strengthened to become key
knowledge brokers for supporting decision making on CSA
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ACCRA’s approach to capacity building• Programmatic approach to
capacity building to strengthen capacities in SADC member states to take CSA practices and technologies to scale
• Capacity building through promoting regional knowledge dissemination on CSA and climate proofing of priority agricultural value chains
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Regional knowledge
dissemination on Climate
Smart Agriculture
Climate Proofing of Agricultural
Value Chains
Capacity Development of
CCARDESA and selected MS
organizations
ACCRA Activities� Creation and dissemination of user
friendly knowledge products� Strengthening the CCARDESA
knowledge management system� Climate proofing of policies, strategies,
programmes and investments� Trainings on climate smart agriculture
and climate financing
� Development of a Capacity DevelopmentStrategy for CCARDESA and selected MS Institutions
� Implementation of prioritized CD measures
� Assessment of climate risks for priority agricultural value chains
� Identification of appropriate practices and technologies to reduce climate risks
� Feasibility studies and piloting � Preparation of Investment proposals and
submission to financiers
Capacity development & Technical assistance
RESULTS• Capacity building through
joint project implementation
• Capacity strengthening through regional trainings and awareness creation
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Results – joint project implementation• ACCRA is partnering with diverse stakeholders to jointly
implement projects that aim to climate proof selected agricultural value chains• Vulnerability assessments• Stakeholder driven selection of suitable CSA
practices & piloting of selected ones • Feasibility studies • Development of bankable investment proposals for
the scaling of CSA innovations within particular agricultural value chains
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Results – joint project implementationSorghum in Lesotho, Botswana• Enhancing sorghum productivity through the use of
conservation agriculture and the stimulo-deterrent diversionary strategies for pest control
• Lesotho Department of Agricultural Research, Botswana DAR, National University of Lesotho, Rural Self-Help Development Association (RSDA), National Vulnerability Assessment Committees, Extension Services and Department of Planning and Policy Analysis
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Results – joint project implementationMaize in Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe• Out scaling climate-smart
technologies to smallholder farmers in Malawi, Zambia & Zimbabwe
• Zambia Agricultural Research Institute, Machinga (MoA-MAL); Total Land Care (MAL), AGRITEX(ZIM), CIMMYT
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RESULTS - regional trainings & awareness• International, regional, national experts • Training courses on Tackling climate change in
agriculture: approaches to climate change adaptation and climate-smart agriculture in the SADC Region –available on saaiks.net
• Regional training in 2016: 27 national extension staff trained
• Upon request by SADC member states, national trainings in Namibia and Zimbabwe training over 50 extension staff
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RESULTS - regional trainings & awarenessRegional training to enhance skills• Understanding modalities of
international (and other) climate finance and climate finance readiness
• Writing investment proposals that are bankable and integrate social and environmental safeguards, and other aspects of mobilising large-scale investment for CSA development
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RESULTS - regional trainings & awareness• Outreach and awareness creation
• Series of events hosted by CCARDESA and partners • Public awareness (and among targeted audiences)
of climate change impacts in agriculture, adaptation and CSA in the region• Regional CSA Conference with FANRPAN• Dry season management workshop in Botswana
with AgriBusiness Forum• Agricultural Radio show
• CCARDESA ICKM system with knowledge sharing platform to reach regional stakeholders
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LessonsStakeholders continue to work in silos• Exchange, learning & collaboration between research
& extension services needs strengthening • Collaboration among NARES is key to bring together
experience, expertise & skills for climate proofing• Effective representation of farmers’ and community
perspectives, engaging with private sector and civil society within projects remains a challenge
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LessonsCoordination has to be cultivated• Isolated initiatives by different actors requires
coordination to bring interventions to scale • Forming meaningful collaboration requires effort
• brings about efficiency gains • minimises duplication• move away from a culture of working in silos• overcoming organizational, cultural hurdles and
competing interests presents challenges• enhance synergies and multi-dimensional
perspectives
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LessonsClimate change challenges transcend national boundaries
Regional collaboration enhances learning• Offers opportunity for learning and spill-over of
technologies at lower cost• Consolidation of best practices provides validation and
useful guidance to choose interventions suited to local contexts
• Value of regional information and knowledge exchange, peer to peer learning and collaboration is important but, collaboration mechanisms are weak
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LessonsRegional collaboration requires resources• Collaboration requires additional
capacities, high-level buy-in and dedicated facilitation
• CCARDESA with mandate for regional coordination of AR&D is well-positioned to take on role of regional broker - institutional resources needed
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LessonsEnabling policy environments• Strengthen policies, strategies and programmes
to guide agricultural decision making, planning and investment
• National agricultural policies in SADC consider climate change impacts, but specific interventions are still lacking
• Resources for design and implementation need to be mobilized
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LessonsAgricultural extension services are central• Key actors in bringing national
policy to local level and CSA to scale
• Specific extension strategies or guidelines are rare
• Often under-staffed, under-funded and lack the capacities, tools & products to bring agricultural development to scale
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LessonsAgricultural extension services are central• Existing extension manuals/guidelines
• are generic and not address climate change specifically• do not specifically guide CSA implementation
• Many adaptation efforts implemented, but capacities for prioritising CSA by context to be strengthened
• Targeted and user-friendly knowledge products for CSA need to be produced and disseminated to strengthen extension service capacity
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Lessons• Key mechanism for climate action:
• Countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement of the UNFCCC
• Resources are to be mobilised for their implementation through international climate finance• Complex funding mechanisms• New skills are needed on how to write
bankable investment proposal s• Collaboration across ministries is key
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Conclusions• Climate Change
• poses additional challenges to agric. development in SADC and threatens livelihoods of smallholders
• creates opportunity for innovation, cooperation and re-orienting existing systems
• Enabling conditions for transformation in light of climate change are favourable• International climate negotiations• Regional momentum• National support• Local innovation
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Conclusions• National agric. extension services play a key role
• bridging gap betw. policy and local implementation • supporting farmers in adopting climate-resilient,
productive farming practices• New skills, new ways of working and new efforts for
collaboration are needed to take CSA to scale• collaboration between research and extension• cross-country collaboration mechanisms• multi-scale partnerships need to be mobilised
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Conclusions• Existing initiatives of combining approaches to
capacity strengthening on scaling up CSA• Partnerships for climate proofing agricultural value
chains • Technical skills for CSA • Climate financing and proposal writing
• In collaboration with farmers, farmers associations, NARES, private sector and NGOs, CCARDESA is contributing towards these efforts
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